4 Sep
2014
4 Sep
'14
5:13 p.m.
On 9/4/14 4:04 PM, Steven M Jones wrote:
My best guess - given what the seller's indicated
- would be that the
QED's were used in an existing ticker plant or market data system,
handling leased line serial comms on one side, using the RAM disk to
buffer data or speed up queries, and just horked the data around without
acting on it. If it's just packets or blocks of data being fed to other
systems, the lack of floating point wouldn't matter so much.
John Wilson knows the details, since they were also one of his customers
according to Dave Carroll.
Apparently several companies, including Mentec, were supplying boards to
keep these systems getting faster, and the sources would change depending
on which vendor had a faster board for the application. Apparently, E11
eventually won.